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- Arctocyon (from Gr**** ''arktos'' and ''kyôn'', "bear/dog-like") is an extinct genus of large placental mammals, part of the possibly polyphyletic family...
- skulls, with large sagittal crests and very large canines. In the case of Arctocyon proper, the lower canines especially were large enough to require a diastema...
- Arctocyon, an arctocyonid...
- Dinocerata. Family Arctocyonidae (possibly polyphyletic ****emblage) Genus Arctocyon Genus Chriacus Family Periptychidae Genus Ectoconus Genus Oxyacodon Family...
- Arctocyon...
- bear. Examples: Phascolarctos ("bag bear"); Arctodus ("bear tooth"); Arctocyon ("bear dog") arthro-: /arθroʊ/. Origin: Ancient Gr****: ἄρθρον (árthron)...
- to carnivoramorphs, while arctocyonids were polyphyletic, with genera Arctocyon and Loxolophus as a sister taxa to pantodonts and periptychids, Goniacodon...
- necessarily closely related. Paleocene–Eocene Family Arctocyonidae Genus Arctocyon Genus Chriacus Family Periptychidae Genus Ectoconus Genus Oxyacodon Family...
- range: Early Paleocene–Early Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Fossils of Arctocyon primaevus Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia...
- been a species of Claenodon. In 2006, it was tentatively re****igned to Arctocyon. Postcranial remains of Anacodon have since been recovered from the Willwood...